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hayre has participated in african education in east and central africa. that was a very smooth relationship for the two universities and i went there as a result set up an office, howard university, to help put in place collaboration between our university and university at howard. the bottom line of that was that we at howard established what we call the south african research and archive al project to study the anti-apartheid movement in the united states. >> dr. harris, what would you say is the legacy, the dual legacy, of nelson mandela both in south africa and in this country? and i guess i'm asking that specificically because you sort of had a bird's eye view of what he was able to do in the country and what he was able to create by extension, by reaching out to howard university to say we want there to be some role here in what happens with south africa going forward. >> well, we were very excited when he came because everyone knew about him. in response to what you just raised i think a way to put that would be this. of the first four recipients o
hayre has participated in african education in east and central africa. that was a very smooth relationship for the two universities and i went there as a result set up an office, howard university, to help put in place collaboration between our university and university at howard. the bottom line of that was that we at howard established what we call the south african research and archive al project to study the anti-apartheid movement in the united states. >> dr. harris, what would you...
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it's 100% totally about education. we didn't come into this saying we want to create the 5th largest city in louisiana, we came into this saying we want to take accountability for the schools in our area. >> but critics say st. george would take more than just accountability. a report commissioned by the baton rouge area chamber warns the break up would cost the city at large 53 million dollars, 20% of its budget. and it would futher segregate the city. baton rouge is already majority black, st. george would be a majority white by a 3 to 1 ratio. >> so now we would have white kids going to school over here on this end of the parish, white kids going to school over there on the other end of the parish, and in the middle, we'd have just the black kids going to school. >> there's also a major income disparity. residents in baton rouge make an average of 58 thousand dollars a year. in the much more affluent st. george area, the average income is 90 thousand. >> i think we have to look at does that take us backwards where w
it's 100% totally about education. we didn't come into this saying we want to create the 5th largest city in louisiana, we came into this saying we want to take accountability for the schools in our area. >> but critics say st. george would take more than just accountability. a report commissioned by the baton rouge area chamber warns the break up would cost the city at large 53 million dollars, 20% of its budget. and it would futher segregate the city. baton rouge is already majority...
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. >> ...thought provoking >> get your damn education. >> ...surprising >> oh, absolutely! >> ...exclusive one-on-one interviews with the most interesting people of our time. >> you're listening because you want to see what's going to happen. >> i want to know what works what do you know works? >> conversations you won't find anywhere else. >> talk to al jazeera. >> only on al jazeera america. >> oh my! >> after a relaunch following a botched roll out, the white house is aggressively reselling the affordable healthcare again. he aimed at explaining why the affordable care act was enacted and why people should be encouraged to sign up. >> right now what that law is doing, yes, you agree with me. right now what this law is doing is helping folks, and we're just getting started with the exchanges. just getting started with the marketplaces. we're not going to walk away from them. if i got to fight another three years to make sure this law works, then that's what i do. >> the website is still the visible part of obamacare. while it seems to be working better that's only part of
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there's probably an education gap. so are they disappointed that they feel they would be much further along nearly 20 years of anc rule, than they are right now? >> it is the enemy of high hopes. i think the success in stopping apartheid let these people believe that their lives would get better very quickly. we are talking about beck kades and decades. so we have to be a little realistic in how quickly their economics, their prospects their hopes will improve. but that said, those hopes were very high, and they are seeing whites still dominate the economic situation here, and they are saying look, where is our economic freedom, we understand that mandela sacrifice sod much for our political freedom, for our freedom from segregation, but where are the jobs, where are the opportunities, where are the clean streets. why is there such a disparity between this township and the area right around the soccer stadium. so i think people will say you have had 20 years anc, that's the political party, you had 20 years since then,
there's probably an education gap. so are they disappointed that they feel they would be much further along nearly 20 years of anc rule, than they are right now? >> it is the enemy of high hopes. i think the success in stopping apartheid let these people believe that their lives would get better very quickly. we are talking about beck kades and decades. so we have to be a little realistic in how quickly their economics, their prospects their hopes will improve. but that said, those hopes...
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>> right now i'm just focusing on taking care of them, making them happy and make sure they get the education so that they don't have to work a fast-food restaurant at 9.31. for the past three weeks i have been working nights and weekends, because christmas time is coming up. >> one day she plans on returning to college and ultimately changing careers. she says a bump in pay would help make that happen. tonya mosley, al jazeera, washington. >>> last month a seattle suburb increased their minimum wage to $15 an hour. alan joining us live. good afternoon, what are we expecting there today? >> well, we're not going to see a strike in this area, stephanie, but workers will stage a march. they are hoping to march 14th miles from the city south of seattle into downtown seattle to hold a rally at city hall a little bit later today. symbolic march. this is the area where organized labor pushed an initiative that won at the a ballot work but is being recounted today. 14 miles, are you going to make that? >> i'm going to try. >> you are working at mcdonald's? >> yes. >> how long have you been working t
>> right now i'm just focusing on taking care of them, making them happy and make sure they get the education so that they don't have to work a fast-food restaurant at 9.31. for the past three weeks i have been working nights and weekends, because christmas time is coming up. >> one day she plans on returning to college and ultimately changing careers. she says a bump in pay would help make that happen. tonya mosley, al jazeera, washington. >>> last month a seattle suburb...
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story from the onion ted cruz coloring book really does exist but despite its impressive collection of educational material there's apparently one glaring omission owners of the cruise to the future comic coloring activity book unfortunately do not get a chance to color in ted cruz's canadian birth certificate. last month a washington state legislature agreed to give an airplane manufacturer boeing a staggering eight point seven billion dollars in tax breaks in the attempt to keep that company from relocating elsewhere and taking thousands of jobs away from the evergreen state on those tax breaks were approved boeing turned around and told members of its machinists union to sign a new contract which meant giving up their hard earned pensions for a risky for a one k. plan union overwhelmingly said no to boeing's plan and now the airplane giant is threatening to move out of washington state or at least part of their operations and is looking for potential suitors elsewhere in the u.s. that's where missouri comes in after word of the union's no vote spread missouri governor jay nixon called a special
story from the onion ted cruz coloring book really does exist but despite its impressive collection of educational material there's apparently one glaring omission owners of the cruise to the future comic coloring activity book unfortunately do not get a chance to color in ted cruz's canadian birth certificate. last month a washington state legislature agreed to give an airplane manufacturer boeing a staggering eight point seven billion dollars in tax breaks in the attempt to keep that company...
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i got education benefits. i work at walmart. i'm a pharmacist. sales associate. i manage produce. i work in logistics. there's more to walmart than you think. vo: opportunity. that's the real walmart. officers under investigation, suspected of running a prostitution ring. >> officers went to his home searching for a missing 16-year- old girl. is outside of the officer's home in southeast with the details. roz? documents, weurt discovered when investigators came here tuesday night, that police officer answer the door himself. he smelled the strong odor of marijuana and found more marijuana on the inside. here is some video we captured upon the search going on last night. inside the apartment, investigators found two young women, one who was 18, the other the 16-year-old missing girl. they had been searching for her. she told investigators she had been there several times and had met six other females. he told -- she said they had worked as prostitutes for the officers. he took voters of her nude wearing sparkly high heels. he told her her nickname would be juicy and he had a sex ta
i got education benefits. i work at walmart. i'm a pharmacist. sales associate. i manage produce. i work in logistics. there's more to walmart than you think. vo: opportunity. that's the real walmart. officers under investigation, suspected of running a prostitution ring. >> officers went to his home searching for a missing 16-year- old girl. is outside of the officer's home in southeast with the details. roz? documents, weurt discovered when investigators came here tuesday night, that...
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. >> ...thought provoking >> get your damn education. >> ...surprising >> oh, absolutely! >> ...exclusive one-on-one interviews with the most interesting people of our time. >> you're listening because you want to see what's going to happen. >> i want to know what works what do you know works? >> conversations you won't find anywhere else. >> talk to al jazeera. >> only on al jazeera america. >> oh my! >>> welcome back to al jazeera america. i'm stephanie sy here are today's headlines. the u.s. economy is growing, but so is the income gap between the rich and the poor. president obama will talk about how to change that and other aspects of the economy when he speaks at a washington think tank in just a few minutes. vice president joe biden is meeting with chinese leaders in beijing but they didn't make any public comments over a dispute over a small group of islands in the east chai sea. >>> a senior leader of hezbollah is gunned down outside of his home in beirut. and they a blaming israel. israel is denying the accusations. >>> cigna announced it will no longer hire peop
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>> 100% because of education. we didn't come in saying we wanted to create the fifth largest city in the state of louisiana we want to take charge of the schools in our area. >> a report commissioned by the baton rouge area said it could cost the city at large $53 million, 20% of its budget and further segregate the city. >> now we would have white kids going to school over here on this end of the parish, white kids going to school on the other end of the parish and in the middle you would just have the black kids going to school. >> there's also a major income disparity. residents in the city make an average much $58,000 a year. while residents in the st. george area make $90,000. >> does that take us backwards where we're segregating ourselves again? i don't see it as a win. >> both the white and black in baton rouge, those looking to break away say it's not race, but education. >> this has nothing to do with skin color. if you have the means to leave bbaton rouge, you leave. >> i guess you're going to have one
>> 100% because of education. we didn't come in saying we wanted to create the fifth largest city in the state of louisiana we want to take charge of the schools in our area. >> a report commissioned by the baton rouge area said it could cost the city at large $53 million, 20% of its budget and further segregate the city. >> now we would have white kids going to school over here on this end of the parish, white kids going to school on the other end of the parish and in the...
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>> it's totally all about education. we came in to this say be we want to take control of our schools. >> it would take more than just at accountability. the city could cost the city at large $53 million, 20% of the budget. and st. george would be majority white 3-1 ratio. >> then we would have white people in the middle coast and in the middle would be the black kids. residents of baton rouge make an average of $58,000 a year. in the more affluent st. george areas make $90,000. >> we have to take a look, does that take us backyard. i don't see it as a trend. >> but it's not a new trend. those who looking to breakaway, they say it's not about race. it has to do with education. >> this has nothing to do with skin color. if you have the means to leave baton rouge and leave the school system, you would have left. >> but for those who are not able to leave like jeffy lee, you're going to have one side better than the other side? everyone will see it move up to a different city. >> for now the breakaway effort continues to br
>> it's totally all about education. we came in to this say be we want to take control of our schools. >> it would take more than just at accountability. the city could cost the city at large $53 million, 20% of the budget. and st. george would be majority white 3-1 ratio. >> then we would have white people in the middle coast and in the middle would be the black kids. residents of baton rouge make an average of $58,000 a year. in the more affluent st. george areas make...
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we are focusing on education. we are focusing on trying to make a healthier system more amenable to the people versus the big government run, cost too much, too complicated. it's not working. we all know that. it is about the kitchen table issues. when i sit with my husband, we talk about it at the kitchen table. we talk about paying for college. my husband talks about his business and regulations and we taxes and talk about our children being able to get a college.et out of what kind of job? are they going to stay in oklahoma? will they have to move somewhere better paying job? it's about paying bills, making house payments. the issues, not taking care of our health. he families might have a problem with substance abuse or mental illness. talking about the things that family in a and something that people can relate to. >> you talk about americans scared.rvous and being byron, they are. it seems like for a long time, stopped talking about the bush tax cuts. the rich are getting richer and poorer. are getter barac
we are focusing on education. we are focusing on trying to make a healthier system more amenable to the people versus the big government run, cost too much, too complicated. it's not working. we all know that. it is about the kitchen table issues. when i sit with my husband, we talk about it at the kitchen table. we talk about paying for college. my husband talks about his business and regulations and we taxes and talk about our children being able to get a college.et out of what kind of job?...
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both of us have used the outdoors a lot for our education so to speak. it's amazing because i did not know of him, nor did he know of me until 1995 and at that point he was already running the longest road in the world when i found him. > >it's a fascinating movie and it is now on the documentary circuit. ultimately it'll be on television? > >we certainly hope so. television---perhaps theatrical. it's a pretty interesting film and the producer did a great job with it. interestingly, serge and nicole did all of the shooting of the footage on it as total amateurs. it really comes across quite well. > >and your life too, an amazing story. joe roetheli, thank you so much. > >you're welcome. thank you bill, coming up... holiday sales strategy. how one retailer is getting shoppers in the door during this competitive christmas season. and later on in chart talk.... the options play that one trader swears by. we'll be right back. the retail race is on. twenty- three days until christmas. and if you think you think shoppers time is squeezed--think about the squee
both of us have used the outdoors a lot for our education so to speak. it's amazing because i did not know of him, nor did he know of me until 1995 and at that point he was already running the longest road in the world when i found him. > >it's a fascinating movie and it is now on the documentary circuit. ultimately it'll be on television? > >we certainly hope so. television---perhaps theatrical. it's a pretty interesting film and the producer did a great job with it. interestingly,...
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>>reporter: it's the new face of education. for new generation of learners. >> these kids are dinl tl native and this is their world. they were completely engage entered the math class. >>reporter: never mind the i-pad and fancy pro 86 screen. most important ingredient is one you can't see. this middle school has blazingly fasten net connection. luxury that half the schools in san mateo county don't have. >> typical school in america has the same internet access as typical home but they have 500 or in the case of this school over 800 kid trying to use that band width e-the head of the education super highway non-profit out to change that with some serious help. they just received 9 million dollars from microsoft founder bill gates and facebook founder zuckerberg among others. >> i think what bill mark and others realize is we are at a tipping point writ now in terms of technology be able to really make a difference. >>reporter: he envision a world where dozens of class room stream video at once using world event like the passin
>>reporter: it's the new face of education. for new generation of learners. >> these kids are dinl tl native and this is their world. they were completely engage entered the math class. >>reporter: never mind the i-pad and fancy pro 86 screen. most important ingredient is one you can't see. this middle school has blazingly fasten net connection. luxury that half the schools in san mateo county don't have. >> typical school in america has the same internet access as...
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i want to go back to education. one of the great challenges is education. our numbers have fallen behind so many countries right now. we have a class that has been protecting the status quo now despite the talk of education reform and protecting the status quo for decades now. we have got to go in and radically reform education into the poorest parts of the country. the special interest groups who had this iron-like grip on public education, they have got to loosen that grip and we need to start taking radical experiments and doing what they are doing in new orleans. it's giving poor parents the same opportunity that rich parents have. that's all we are asking for. give the poorest parents the same opportunities that the richest parents have and let them choose. let them decide what school is best for their child. it seems like such a simple approach yet my god, the special interests go crazy when you do that. >> it's not like there not great ideas. we talk to them every week and there pockets of people doing incredible things. there is a school called the
i want to go back to education. one of the great challenges is education. our numbers have fallen behind so many countries right now. we have a class that has been protecting the status quo now despite the talk of education reform and protecting the status quo for decades now. we have got to go in and radically reform education into the poorest parts of the country. the special interest groups who had this iron-like grip on public education, they have got to loosen that grip and we need to...
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the recent trend toward shrinking of public services the shrinking of funding for the arts for for education all these things like where is all the money going is that there's a built in physical lack of this substance called money no i mean money is a social agreement we could create as much of it as we wanted. but we're locked into a system and that system itself is locked into deeper more invisible narratives and ideologies and i would even say mythologies that that. perpetuate artificial scarcity so the scarcity is artificial and just to say at bottom where it comes from as far as money goes it comes from the fact that money is created as interest bearing debt i want to play you a sound bite from newton friedman who famously said this in one thousand nine hundred seventy nine the phil donahue show. of course none of us are greedy it's only the other for the record of history is absolutely crystal clear that there is no alternative way so far discovered of improving the lot of the ordinary people that can hold a candle to the productive activities that are unleashed by free enterprise so
the recent trend toward shrinking of public services the shrinking of funding for the arts for for education all these things like where is all the money going is that there's a built in physical lack of this substance called money no i mean money is a social agreement we could create as much of it as we wanted. but we're locked into a system and that system itself is locked into deeper more invisible narratives and ideologies and i would even say mythologies that that. perpetuate artificial...
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. >> he had selected steve snide, his number one lieutenant, and wayne martin, their harvard educated attorney to come out and talk to our representative. the tension was extremely high. you could quite literally feel the crosshairs on him from the branch davidian compound. as i'm sure steve snyder and wayne martin could feel from our tactical teams that had everybody covered. >> the meeting is positive. the fbi negotiators arranged to meet again in two days and deliver written assurances requested by koresh, but schneider abruptly cancels the second meeting. >> he indicated that david didn't think it was necessary, so i said, wait a minute, you don't want to come out or david doesn't want you to come out? he says, well, david doesn't think it's necessary. >> for agent sage, a heated phone conversation that follows provokes a crucial realization about koresh. >> at one point, he talked about my salvation. i said, david, i am absolutely confident in my salvation as a christian, and you, partner, are not in a position to judge me. now, that was a very calculated move because stop and th
. >> he had selected steve snide, his number one lieutenant, and wayne martin, their harvard educated attorney to come out and talk to our representative. the tension was extremely high. you could quite literally feel the crosshairs on him from the branch davidian compound. as i'm sure steve snyder and wayne martin could feel from our tactical teams that had everybody covered. >> the meeting is positive. the fbi negotiators arranged to meet again in two days and deliver written...
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abject poverty for blacks and severe restrictions on travel, education and employment. whites enjoyed all of the powers and riches in this rich country. his name meant troublemaker. perhaps it was his destiny, particularly after the massacre in 1960 when he and the african national congress took up armed struggle. >> there are many people who feel it is useless for us to talk about peace and nonviolence against a government who is using savage attacks on unarmed defenseless people. >> reporter: mandela was a born leader. so in 1964 the apartheid government tried him for treason and sought the death penalty. his opening statement to the court electrified the country. >> i have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society. it is an ideal for which i hope to live for and see realized. but my lord, if it needs be, it is an ideal for which i am prepared to die. >> reporter: mandela was sentenced to life in prison and sent to the notorious robben island prison and he was not heard from for nearly 30 years. and then in 1990, the south african government, under increasi
abject poverty for blacks and severe restrictions on travel, education and employment. whites enjoyed all of the powers and riches in this rich country. his name meant troublemaker. perhaps it was his destiny, particularly after the massacre in 1960 when he and the african national congress took up armed struggle. >> there are many people who feel it is useless for us to talk about peace and nonviolence against a government who is using savage attacks on unarmed defenseless people....
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. >> it's about 100% total about education. we came into this saying we want to take accountability for the schools in our area >> critics say st george would take more than accountability. the break-up could cost the city at large $53 million - 20% of its budget and would segregate the city. baton rouge is majority black. st george would be a majority white at a 3:1 ratio. >> now we would have white kids going to school over here on this end of the parish. white kids going to school on the ordinary end of the parish and in the middle the black kids. >> there's an income disparity. residents in baton rouge earn $58,000. residents in st george make 90,000. >> we have to go back to where we are segregating ourselves. i don't see it as a win. >> it's not a trend. both the white and black middle class have been fleeing baton rouge in search of new schools. those breaking away say it's not about race, but education. >> this has nothing to do with skin colour. if you have the means to leave baton rouge and the school system, you have
. >> it's about 100% total about education. we came into this saying we want to take accountability for the schools in our area >> critics say st george would take more than accountability. the break-up could cost the city at large $53 million - 20% of its budget and would segregate the city. baton rouge is majority black. st george would be a majority white at a 3:1 ratio. >> now we would have white kids going to school over here on this end of the parish. white kids going to...
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so we should offer our people the best technical education in the world. that's why we've worked to connect local businesses with community colleges so workers, young and old, can earn the new skills that earn them more money. and i've also embraced an idea that i know all of you at the center for american progress have championed. and by the way, republican governors in a couple of states have championed. that's making high-quality preschool available to every child in america. [ applause ] we know that kids in these programs grow up likely to get more education, earn higher wages, form more stable families of their own. it starts a virtuous cycle, not a vicious one. and we should invest in that. we should give all of our children that chance. as we empower our young people for future success, the third part of this middle-class economics is empowering our workers. it's time to ensure our collective bargaining laws function as they're supposed to so unions have a level playing field to organize for a better deal for workers and better wages for the middle
so we should offer our people the best technical education in the world. that's why we've worked to connect local businesses with community colleges so workers, young and old, can earn the new skills that earn them more money. and i've also embraced an idea that i know all of you at the center for american progress have championed. and by the way, republican governors in a couple of states have championed. that's making high-quality preschool available to every child in america. [ applause ] we...
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the customers who are taking their time doing their research, when they call us, we can put a good educated--get them in the right vehicle at the right price that fits their need. >> for the commuter, what is the most important thing they should do when they're doing their research on line, they reach out to somebody, contact by your distributorship, look, i understand you're interested in a gmc truck. what information do they need right there, or what are questions that they should ask to be sure they're headed towards a great deal. >> what is a great deal? every manufacturer, everybody has a great deal from $99 a month to zero percent. but customers doing research on the car, they're looking to spend quite a bit of money, especially in the buick, gmc line. they're looking at their options and what will be comfortable for themselves. when they're researching for the car they're looking to talk to somebody who can guide them in the right direction. mostly 88% of people who are out there, they're doing research, and they're trying to fit their needs so when they come in the show room maybe t
the customers who are taking their time doing their research, when they call us, we can put a good educated--get them in the right vehicle at the right price that fits their need. >> for the commuter, what is the most important thing they should do when they're doing their research on line, they reach out to somebody, contact by your distributorship, look, i understand you're interested in a gmc truck. what information do they need right there, or what are questions that they should ask...
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. >> start with one issue education... gun control... the gap between rich and poor... job creation... climate change... tax policy... the economy... iran... healthcare... ad guests on all sides of the debate. >> this is a right we should all have... >> it's just the way it is... >> there's something seriously wrong... >> there's been acrimony... >> the conservative ideal... >> it's an urgent need... and a host willing to ask the tough questions >> how do you explain it to yourself? and you'll get... the inside story ray suarez hosts inside story weekdays at 5 eastern only on al jazeera america >> and welcome back. tonight we're looking in depth at health care in privately run prisons in america and in the second part of his investigation, america tonight's adam may, said that in an effort to save money, privatized care has sentenced some prisoners to death. >> it's a growing trend, states looking to trim budgets. to date, at least 28 states have privatized prison care. american friend services, in arizona, since the time the state privatized the prison health care , cost dropped $30
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it kicks off computer science education week. org.s sponsored by code. here is president obama. notearning these skills are important for your future but for our country's are. if you want america to stem the cutting edge tom a we need young americans to master the tools and technology that will change how you do just about everything. >> they are giving coding tips from entrepreneurs included this guy, mark zuckerberg. >> if i wanted to wish everybody on facebook and happy birthday by sending an e-mail, it might take more than a century to write out all the e-mails. with a few lines of code, i can have a system to send an e-mail to everybody on facebook. that is why they are valuable. francisco us from san is the cofounder of code.org. whether that mark zuckerberg, what is the point of this? >> it is great to be here. that weioned earlier are lagging in math and science. at least every school in america does teach math and teach science. only one in 10 schools teach computer science. yourself, if the point of education is to prepare kids for afe and the 21st century tom shouldn
it kicks off computer science education week. org.s sponsored by code. here is president obama. notearning these skills are important for your future but for our country's are. if you want america to stem the cutting edge tom a we need young americans to master the tools and technology that will change how you do just about everything. >> they are giving coding tips from entrepreneurs included this guy, mark zuckerberg. >> if i wanted to wish everybody on facebook and happy birthday...
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>> the united states has education apartheid, that's the facts... >> talk to al jazeera with m. night shayamalan sunday at 7et / 4pt on al jazeera america determining using some sort of subjective interpretation of their policy as to whether or not your particular report was actually abusive, because if it doesn't contain language that specifically threatens you directly or is targeted towards you specifically, they may not consider it abuse. they may consider it offensive. and in that case they just recommend that you block that person. >> i don't want to minimise this, because i mean, there's some really horrible things that are on line, and it's not - it's not just twitter, what has happened through social media and the anonymity of the net is that you see websites, hate-filled websites targetting all sorts of groups, popping up. there has been a huge number of those that exist as well. >> while you were asleep, news was happening. >> here are the stories we're following. >> find out what happened and what to expect. >> international outrage. >> a day of political posturing.
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martha: disappointing news about america's education system. according to the latest survey when it comes to major subjects like math, reading and signs, u.s. teenagers fall ray behind their counter parts in asia and europe. gregg palkot is live in london to tell us more about these results. >> reporter: the international report card for schools is out. it comes from the well-regarded oedd. while we don't get an f it feels like a c. our teenagers are 20th in the world in reading skills and a as for math, 28 other countries are ahead of our teenagers. here is what they have to say about our results. >> at the end of the day quality of outcome and quality of education can never exceed the quality of instruction. >> reporter: we have had a statement from the education secretary. he calls it a picture of stagnation. while things have not gotten worse. our rankings have split because others have gotten better'. chinese cities like beijing and hong kong lead the way. in a heating unglobal economy strong numbers. martha: we are spending more money, we
martha: disappointing news about america's education system. according to the latest survey when it comes to major subjects like math, reading and signs, u.s. teenagers fall ray behind their counter parts in asia and europe. gregg palkot is live in london to tell us more about these results. >> reporter: the international report card for schools is out. it comes from the well-regarded oedd. while we don't get an f it feels like a c. our teenagers are 20th in the world in reading skills...
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the recent trend toward shrinking of public services the shrinking of funding for the arts for for education all these things like where is all the money going is that there's a built in physical lack of this substance called money no i mean money is a social agreement we could create as much of it as we wanted. but we're locked into a system and that system itself is locked into deeper more invisible narratives and ideologies and i would even say mythologies that that. perpetuate artificial scarcity so the scarcity is artificial and just to say at bottom where it comes from as far as money goes it comes from the fact that money is created as interest bearing debt i want to play you a sound bite from milton friedman who famously said this in one thousand nine hundred seventy nine the phil donahue show. of course none of us are greedy it's only the other for the record of history is absolutely crystal clear that there is no alternative way so far discovered of improving the lot of the ordinary people that can hold a candle to the productive activities that are unleashed by free enterprise sho
the recent trend toward shrinking of public services the shrinking of funding for the arts for for education all these things like where is all the money going is that there's a built in physical lack of this substance called money no i mean money is a social agreement we could create as much of it as we wanted. but we're locked into a system and that system itself is locked into deeper more invisible narratives and ideologies and i would even say mythologies that that. perpetuate artificial...
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it is not only the scope and the horror and the courage of those educators who were on the speed of what happened. >> i went to president to newtown, and the grief was tangible. it was a physical thing you could feel. it is difficult to talk about even right now. in the last few weeks, there was an information, there was haunting details from the shooter who was clearly a young man suffering from sight mental health issues, and yet his mother, nancy lanza kept weapons in the house, took her son to the shooting range, she even planned to buy him a gun for christmas last year. she says, quote, you would want treatment for someone like that. he was isolated from everyone but his mother, and she did not have the understanding. i know it is sensitive because she is the one that he killed that day, but is that mother correct? should nancy lanza have stepped up more? >> nancy lanza probably needed help herself. and it certainly, as a parent, of four children, i can speak eternally about the challenges of parenting. not in this kind of situation, but easy to say in hindsight what she should have
it is not only the scope and the horror and the courage of those educators who were on the speed of what happened. >> i went to president to newtown, and the grief was tangible. it was a physical thing you could feel. it is difficult to talk about even right now. in the last few weeks, there was an information, there was haunting details from the shooter who was clearly a young man suffering from sight mental health issues, and yet his mother, nancy lanza kept weapons in the house, took...
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we are adding funds to education. the 30 lowest performing school districts are getting the bulk of the money. it is by agreement on how that money is going to be spent. i'm also fond of saying that this is very much about changing our habits. only sat down and looked at all of our school districts and looked at those low performing districts, in almost every one of those, there was at least one outstanding school. outstandinghem schools. we are more likely to repeat our failures than we are our successes. we are more likely to explain ofy our successes as a way adding some psychological support. that is a mindset that has to change. we are doing that. ,ot only do we have an alliance but we also found that a commissioners network where we are empowered to work with that 25 lowest performing schools. they are applying because we .ave interventions different styles of turnaround. we have a school in new haven which is run by the teachers. a new experimental model which is showing great success. we have another school in
we are adding funds to education. the 30 lowest performing school districts are getting the bulk of the money. it is by agreement on how that money is going to be spent. i'm also fond of saying that this is very much about changing our habits. only sat down and looked at all of our school districts and looked at those low performing districts, in almost every one of those, there was at least one outstanding school. outstandinghem schools. we are more likely to repeat our failures than we are...
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education is a key component of that. the more successful our clients are going to be, the more successful our business is going to be. >> that school. kristi, here's the next question. when tiki first -- about, the amount of option and derivative businesses that td ameritrade at the time was about nine, 9.5% overall quality. didn't you guys have taken over and build up the technology, it's not like in the mid '40s, something like that which is an incredible growth in the derivatives space which means a different, there's a different climate. kristi, how do we now move this huge growth in the derivatives space and the technology and everything else down to this younger generation? how do we make it so it's investable for them? how do we make the story compelling? >> absolute. this goes back to what i was saying before. making sure your providing the tools for the younger generation. think about how they live now. they are gaining on their mobile devices. they are consuming content. continuously. whether it's a video or wr
education is a key component of that. the more successful our clients are going to be, the more successful our business is going to be. >> that school. kristi, here's the next question. when tiki first -- about, the amount of option and derivative businesses that td ameritrade at the time was about nine, 9.5% overall quality. didn't you guys have taken over and build up the technology, it's not like in the mid '40s, something like that which is an incredible growth in the derivatives...
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. >> i carry with me at this time fond memories of systematic education, patient, calculated, measured, to ensure that we begin to appreciate that struggle is not just about emotional drive, but that we need it to learn the tactics that would make us [ inaudible ] to fight us, and enable us to survive through thick and thin. >> reporter: on the streets where he lived during apartheid people gathered too. this was a hot bed of -- [ technical difficulties ] >> he is a hero to all around the world. everyone is very sad right now because he is gone. >> reporter: many people here say they will celebrate his life. millions of south africans won't be able to attend the state funeral, but they plan to say farewell in their own way. they say they are going to line the streets all across south africa and say farewell to the father of the nation and thank you for making south africa what it is today. nelson mandela inspired millions of people to reconcile and forgive. they begin to prepare to say good-bye. >>> the death of nelson mandela is also hitting home. communities across the u.s. are payin
. >> i carry with me at this time fond memories of systematic education, patient, calculated, measured, to ensure that we begin to appreciate that struggle is not just about emotional drive, but that we need it to learn the tactics that would make us [ inaudible ] to fight us, and enable us to survive through thick and thin. >> reporter: on the streets where he lived during apartheid people gathered too. this was a hot bed of -- [ technical difficulties ] >> he is a hero to...
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. >> the house education examines the college of affordability and the pell grant program. at 10:00 e it live a.m. eastern on c-span 3. eastern, juan manuel santos speaks at the the nal press club about economic and political situation in colombia. that's also live on c-span 3. >> as you walk in, there are tables out in front with lots of right?ts, not the -- prior to entering the gun show. how he pamphlets are about the government is trying to take away the right to own guns and the government is doing this, that. is doing obama care is terrible. those were the guys that i wanted to talk to. were the guys with the leaflets, with the ideas. like this yourself. you?id who are i said i'm a -- i'm an academic. i'm a researcher. the researcher on these rganizations and these ideas and try to understand the guys. and study the men who believe this stuff. said -- they m looked at me. they asked me questions. here's what i ok, am. i don't get it. but here's my job. i want to understand how you guys see the world. i want to understand that your is -- look, you will not convince me
. >> the house education examines the college of affordability and the pell grant program. at 10:00 e it live a.m. eastern on c-span 3. eastern, juan manuel santos speaks at the the nal press club about economic and political situation in colombia. that's also live on c-span 3. >> as you walk in, there are tables out in front with lots of right?ts, not the -- prior to entering the gun show. how he pamphlets are about the government is trying to take away the right to own guns and...
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king and joe young, the education community, the atlanta education center, and other places. he said atlanta has leadership, and south africans need to model themselves on what they see 457enning here and other places in the states. >> we'll talk more about dr. king. we'll talk to bernice king next hour. she can share some of the memories she has with this incredible man. robert franklin, thank you. and julian, my thanks to you as well. >>> coming up, the draw for positioning in the 2014 world cup happening today. where did team usa lant? we'll explain that to you, the significance coming up. >>> also ahead, we'll talk to the man, willie nelson. but we're talking about how a change.org petition caused him to cancel one of his shows and how killer whales figure into all of this. don't miss this conversation with willie nelson live. stay with me. hey kevin...still eating chalk for heartburn? yeah... try new alka seltzer fruit chews. they work fast on heartburn and taste awesome. these are good. told ya! i'm feeling better already. [ male announcer ] new alka seltzer fruits chew
king and joe young, the education community, the atlanta education center, and other places. he said atlanta has leadership, and south africans need to model themselves on what they see 457enning here and other places in the states. >> we'll talk more about dr. king. we'll talk to bernice king next hour. she can share some of the memories she has with this incredible man. robert franklin, thank you. and julian, my thanks to you as well. >>> coming up, the draw for positioning in...
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the education system is riddled with problems. and you also see that there is an increasing public corruption. so the current president has been involved in a huge scandal involving his private home. so people look to nelson mandela and think theres with a leader. there was someone with real integrity. so i think that this is a moment for people to look back and reflect on where they've come from and how to get back on the right path. >> woodruff: and also by definition losing what i think you call the moral center for the country. >> well, i think for many people nelson pan della does represent a kind of moral center. and a choice to turn away from violence, to turn away from strife. and to turn away from racial divisions. and instead of standing in judgement of one another, to reconcile and to admit that we did terrible things to each other. but now we're ready to move on. and i think that was the great gift of nelson mandela. that he was able to bring people together in a way that made them feel that they could forgive and made
the education system is riddled with problems. and you also see that there is an increasing public corruption. so the current president has been involved in a huge scandal involving his private home. so people look to nelson mandela and think theres with a leader. there was someone with real integrity. so i think that this is a moment for people to look back and reflect on where they've come from and how to get back on the right path. >> woodruff: and also by definition losing what i...
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i got education benefits. i work at walmart. i'm a pharmacist. sales associate. i manage produce. i work in logistics. there's more to walmart than you think. vo: opportunity. that's the real walmart. kand i don't have time foris morunreliable companies.b angie's list definitely saves me time and money. for over 18 years we've helped people take care of the things that matter most. join today. to help secure retirements and protect financial futures. to help communities recover and rebuild. for companies going from garage to global. on the ground, in the air, even into space. we repaid every dollar america lent us. and gave america back a profit. we're here to keep our promises. to help you realize a better tomorrow. from the families of aig, happy holidays. >>> welcome back to "the lead." he showed the world the true meaning of resilience and during 27 years as a prisoner in his native south africa, emerging from that torment to become his country's first black president, leading his people out of the ugliness that was apartheid. we are today remembering the remarkable life of ne
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. >> e-house education collegettee examines affordability and appel grant program. you can see it live at 10 a.m. eastern on c-span three. colombian president one man well santos speaks at the national press club about the economic and political situation in colombia. that is live also on c-span3. >> as you walk in, there tables out front with pamphlets, prior to entering the gun show. howpamphlets are all about the government is trying to take away your guns. those were the guys i wanted to talk to. they were the guys with the leaflets. i said to them. is this yourself? and they said yeah, who are you. i said i am an academic, a researcher and i'm doing research on these organizations and these ideas and trying to understand them. a bunch of them looked at me suspiciously and said -- and asked me questions. i said look, here's what i am. i don't get it. here's my job. i want to understand how you see the world. i want to understand your worldview. look, you will not convince me, and i will not convince you. that is off the table. what is on the table is at one to u
. >> e-house education collegettee examines affordability and appel grant program. you can see it live at 10 a.m. eastern on c-span three. colombian president one man well santos speaks at the national press club about the economic and political situation in colombia. that is live also on c-span3. >> as you walk in, there tables out front with pamphlets, prior to entering the gun show. howpamphlets are all about the government is trying to take away your guns. those were the guys i...
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you don't know how it works and you've never applied for it and never done anything, you need to be educated and there's a whole lot of people out there who have not had health insurance before or how to use it. >> there are a lot of people who don't have computers and a lot of people are watching television about this sort of thing, so you have a real public education problem that goes with any major social change like this. it was no different for social security or for medicare or for the drug benefit under medicare. there's always a lot of education that has to be done. >> we know that there's a renewed sense of confidence certainly coming from the white house and certainly coming from democrats who have been anxious about this, and i know that as of tuesday in your state more than 175,000 residents have enrolled in health care coverage since october 1st and we know since november 14th, enrollments have increased by 55%. in your opening remarks from yesterday's committee hearing from the aca implementation and you related from the constituent who called your office and they were irate th
you don't know how it works and you've never applied for it and never done anything, you need to be educated and there's a whole lot of people out there who have not had health insurance before or how to use it. >> there are a lot of people who don't have computers and a lot of people are watching television about this sort of thing, so you have a real public education problem that goes with any major social change like this. it was no different for social security or for medicare or for...
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this will help local school districts educate military children. the bill will extend existing military land withdrawals in a number of places that would otherwise expire, leaving the military without critical testing and training capabilities. the bill includes a new land withdrawal to enable the marine corps to expand its training area at 29 palms. the bill provides needed funding authority for the destruction of syrian chemical weapons stockpiles and for efforts of the jordanian armed forces to secure that country's border with skier syria. earlier today, general martin dempsey, the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, wrote a whrer to the leadership of the senate and the house of representatives in which he strongly urges completion of action on the national defense authorization act this year. general dempsey's letter provides a long list of essential authorities that will lapse if this bill is not enacted. the -- and this is one just -- one paragraph that of his bill l -- his letter. the authorities are crit l cal to the nation's defense an
this will help local school districts educate military children. the bill will extend existing military land withdrawals in a number of places that would otherwise expire, leaving the military without critical testing and training capabilities. the bill includes a new land withdrawal to enable the marine corps to expand its training area at 29 palms. the bill provides needed funding authority for the destruction of syrian chemical weapons stockpiles and for efforts of the jordanian armed forces...
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watch this show probably don't have that problem because they're probably wealthier than average better educated than average and have the capability to make the right decisions for themselves but for the average american they're being pushed into something that they didn't ask for they didn't want a takeover of health care what they wanted was these things to be covered it could have been done in a smaller more efficient more effective way it wasn't and now we have the mess we had over the weekend the administration declared it has achieved its goal of making health care work best majority of usage you know that the website work right and what they're saying is that now ninety percent of the people who come in can get signed up i'm not sure if it's ninety percent but think about it so that means the ten percent of americans one out of ten there are people who are on the cameras and hailing the sound for this little conversation we're having right now it means that one or two of the people who are in this studio will not be able to access it and that's just signing up that isn't even getting the
watch this show probably don't have that problem because they're probably wealthier than average better educated than average and have the capability to make the right decisions for themselves but for the average american they're being pushed into something that they didn't ask for they didn't want a takeover of health care what they wanted was these things to be covered it could have been done in a smaller more efficient more effective way it wasn't and now we have the mess we had over the...
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i take this from an educational point of view. our people to on see who was being subversive to our government, who was working with foreign interests. this is nothing new. unfortunately the nsa, as much as we hate it and it leaves a to taste, they have a job do. when you take a look at multimedia, like facebook, twitter, so on and so forth, you have people constantly pushing one side or the other and if they are following these little groups online and nobody knows who these groups are. now that facebook is a public , who is spending the money to antagonize people to take extreme size of -- extreme --es of republican, democrat if you take a look at what is out there, it is extremely hateful, extremely pointed, and a violent tone. why are people having such a the time understanding that government has a job to protect its people? if you are going to put something stupid out there you are responsible for your actions. host: will any of these surveillance disclosures changed the way you use social media like facebook? caller: no. th
i take this from an educational point of view. our people to on see who was being subversive to our government, who was working with foreign interests. this is nothing new. unfortunately the nsa, as much as we hate it and it leaves a to taste, they have a job do. when you take a look at multimedia, like facebook, twitter, so on and so forth, you have people constantly pushing one side or the other and if they are following these little groups online and nobody knows who these groups are. now...
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. >> on advice of one of the prisoner counselors, i tried to further my education, and i got a bachelors in psychology. that was intriguing because so many of the people inside seemed to be psych patients. so that had a little concrete immediate use. >> we were on the wynne unit for about ten years together. then he graduated from sam houston through the college program and he went down to the ramsey unit for the masters program down in from the university of houston. >> the ramsey unit's maybe 30 to 50 miles south of houston. but it's about 30 or 50 years back on the calendar. it's an agricultural unit. i thought i was in pretty good shape when i went there. i'd been lifting weights and running for a number of years. and i was 44 years old when i went to the field for the first time. it just about killed me. i can laugh now, but when you're new to it, it's real hot and humid down south. imagine that it's august in texas and there's no smell quite like walking past a cell block with several hundred men. the chow hall smells a certain way. that many people there was 26300 men on those uni
. >> on advice of one of the prisoner counselors, i tried to further my education, and i got a bachelors in psychology. that was intriguing because so many of the people inside seemed to be psych patients. so that had a little concrete immediate use. >> we were on the wynne unit for about ten years together. then he graduated from sam houston through the college program and he went down to the ramsey unit for the masters program down in from the university of houston. >> the...
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. >> julia, who had a master's in education from ukraine, struck vanhorn as an unlikely girlfriend to such a violent felo felon. she'd come to the u.s. to become an opare. >> my plan was to improve my english and learn the culture of this country. >> after working three months caring for a family of six, the family let her go on thanksgiving weekend, leaving her homeless in a foreign country. the agency that placed her offered no help. >> my agency told me, you can call your parents and ask for money, and theoretically i could do that, but practically i could not because i was too proud to do that. >> that's when an acquaintance introduced her to the owner of several chicago massage parlors. a businessman named alex campbell. >> the first time i talked to him was over the phone. there was nothing suspicious about him. just, like, regular person, talked to me about a job. >> even though julia has no experience as a massage therapist, campbell offers her a job. >> in the beginning, he was her knight in shining armor. she was in a situation. he came alo lonlong and saved hm that situatio
. >> julia, who had a master's in education from ukraine, struck vanhorn as an unlikely girlfriend to such a violent felo felon. she'd come to the u.s. to become an opare. >> my plan was to improve my english and learn the culture of this country. >> after working three months caring for a family of six, the family let her go on thanksgiving weekend, leaving her homeless in a foreign country. the agency that placed her offered no help. >> my agency told me, you can call...
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>> the united states has education apartheid, that's the facts... >> talk to al jazeera with m. night shayamalan sunday at 7et / 4pt on al jazeera america >> and welcome back. tonight we're looking in depth at health care in privately run prisons in america and in the second part of his investigation, america tonight's adam may, said that in an effort to save money, privatized care has sentenced some prisoners to death. >> it's a growing trend, states looking to trim budgets. to date, at least 28 states have privatized prison care. american friend services, in arizona, since the time the state privatized the prison health care, cost dropped $30 million. 50 people died in arizona department of corrections custody in just the first eight months of this year. compare this to 37 deaths in the previous two years combined. >> some people just believe the government is the only one to care for this people. >> state attorney general john cavanaugh, we asked him whether he thought it put inmates in danger. >> people die in prisons. i receive a lot of handwritten notes from prisoners, i r
>> the united states has education apartheid, that's the facts... >> talk to al jazeera with m. night shayamalan sunday at 7et / 4pt on al jazeera america >> and welcome back. tonight we're looking in depth at health care in privately run prisons in america and in the second part of his investigation, america tonight's adam may, said that in an effort to save money, privatized care has sentenced some prisoners to death. >> it's a growing trend, states looking to trim...
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. >> democrats have been hoping to restore funding for medical research and education. the pressure is on patty murray and republican congressman paul ryan to finalize a deal to fund the government beyond january 15th. a new push from democrats in recent days has been a $25 billion unemployment extension which is due to run sought december 28th. >> right now more than 1 million of americans are poses to lose a vital lifeline, a few days after christmas, if congress doesn't do something about it. >> unemployment benefits have been extended five times at a price tag of $226 billion and some conservatives argue more extensions are not acceptable. >> they are causing them to become a perpetual part of the unemployed in our economy and while it seems good, it does a disservice to those who need a help. >> and they said it wasn't part of the necessity of a budget agreement. >> negotiations are moving in the right direction. they haven't closed the deal. but i hope as part of it, the negotiators will take to heart what the president had to say. >> the budget conferree was opti
. >> democrats have been hoping to restore funding for medical research and education. the pressure is on patty murray and republican congressman paul ryan to finalize a deal to fund the government beyond january 15th. a new push from democrats in recent days has been a $25 billion unemployment extension which is due to run sought december 28th. >> right now more than 1 million of americans are poses to lose a vital lifeline, a few days after christmas, if congress doesn't do...
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the shooting was over and adam lanza had killed himself after takings lives of 20 children and six educators. >> we're not playing the calls and for obvious reasons, but i'm still curious as to the tone of the calls you listened to. >> reporter: some of them were calm. the custodian was a little bit concerned, obviously, but i couldn't call him to be in a state of emotional distress. the teacher in her room was unusually calm. she had not been able to lock the door. the police asked her if she do the safety, she said she couldn't. she was told to just keep every quiet and take care of the children, take care of herself. there were spouse who is had received text messages from their loved one inside the building. all in all you would have to call the response, especially on the part of the dispatcher, but those making the calls cool and calm. >> hard to react when you're panicked. calm make sense. randall. thank you. the u.s. economy is growing, but so is the income gap between rich and poor americans. president obama addressed the problem. >> the lack of upward mobility that has jeopardized
the shooting was over and adam lanza had killed himself after takings lives of 20 children and six educators. >> we're not playing the calls and for obvious reasons, but i'm still curious as to the tone of the calls you listened to. >> reporter: some of them were calm. the custodian was a little bit concerned, obviously, but i couldn't call him to be in a state of emotional distress. the teacher in her room was unusually calm. she had not been able to lock the door. the police asked...
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the education secretary tony called it the picture of stagnation. >> there is a lot of work that needs to be done. >> but to make you feel better these tests aren't that criminal, but the bigger thing to learn is critical thinking. >> higher order thinking. we were just talking about it. >> we were just talking about it. >> it links to reading, comprehension, and hang on to the music, and it links to matthew. >> that's why some advocates say don't freak out about these kinds of tests and comparison because a lot of it based on memorization and the most important is critical thinking. >> thank you. now. >> you've been hearing that detroit has become the largest municipality to file bankruptcy. david, remember us again, how serious are detroit's financial problems? >> it's very serious. it's serious to the point of all the money that the city of detroit takes in to their tax receipts and revenue, $0.40 on the dollar has to go as far as dealing with the debt that detroit has accumulated. if they did nothing that proportion would go up to $0.65 on the dollar. that is money that could not b
the education secretary tony called it the picture of stagnation. >> there is a lot of work that needs to be done. >> but to make you feel better these tests aren't that criminal, but the bigger thing to learn is critical thinking. >> higher order thinking. we were just talking about it. >> we were just talking about it. >> it links to reading, comprehension, and hang on to the music, and it links to matthew. >> that's why some advocates say don't freak out...